Sr Mgr - IT Appl Development

United Airlines; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

United Airlines’ Digital Technology team is building the tech that keeps one of the world’s largest airlines moving. This hands-on Senior Manager – IT Application Development leads AI agent design, workflow automation, and enterprise-scale modernization across Workday, ServiceNow, and finance apps.

You’ll guide cloud-native development with .NET/Java and Python tooling, oversee RPA, and establish governance for responsible AI while delivering scalable solutions for a global enterprise with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Engineering in Computers or IT related field.
• 15+ years in Programming with agentic AI and application development.
• 8+ years in management or technical lead roles.
• 2+ years with LangChain/LangGraph and LangSmith for multi-step workflows.
• 3+ years in RPA development and maintenance.
• Experience with Workday, ServiceNow and enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across Enterprise Systems domains including Workday, ServiceNow, finance apps and corporate software.
• Architect, engineer, and scale AI agents and bots to automate workflows across the organization.
• Lead AI strategy and workflow automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve cycle time.
• Maintain ownership of cloud-native app development and AI tooling in hybrid environments.
• Build and govern Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines for knowledge indexing.
• Evaluate and govern LLM integration with guardrails for security and compliance.

Skills

LangChain

LangGraph

LangSmith

Python

.NET/Java

RPA

Workday

ServiceNow

Cloud AWS

Vector databases

Education

B.E. Computers

Job description

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.

Description

United’s Digital Technology team is building the technology that keeps one of the world’s largest airlines moving—connecting people, systems, data, and ideas at global scale. We design, modernize, and operate high-impact digital platforms powered by cloud engineering, data, automation, and Agentic AI, turning bold ideas into reliable solutions used across the enterprise.

Find your future at United! We’re reimagining what an airline can be—from the way our customers travel to how our teams work, collaborate, and innovate behind the scenes. Join a global community of 100,000+ people who bring curiosity, diverse perspectives, and a shared passion for shaping the future of travel.

Here, your work has real reach. You’ll help solve meaningful enterprise challenges, modernize critical platforms, and create smarter ways of working for teams across the business. We support your ambitions with opportunities to grow, industry-leading health and wellness programs, travel privileges across the world’s largest route network, and employee-led communities that help you connect, belong, and thrive.

If you’re excited by scale, inspired by technology, and energized by building what’s next, come define tomorrow with us.

Job overview and responsibilities

We are looking for a hands-on, forward-thinking Senior Manager – IT Application Development to help transform United’s Enterprise technology landscape. The leader in this role will use frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph to build intelligent agents, automate complex workflows, and unlock new levels of speed, quality, and productivity across Enterprise Systems.

• Enterprise Systems Domain Leadership: Provide effective leadership, motivation, and mentoring
  across the Enterprise Systems domains, including Workday, ServiceNow, Finance Applications, and Corporate Software, while building domain capability, delivery ownership, and operational accountability
• Agentic Solution Design, Orchestration, and Integration: Architect, engineer, and scale AI agents and Bots (Robotic Process Automation) to automate workflows across the organization, leveraging frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph to orchestrate multi-step tasks, decisioning, tool use, human-in-the-loop approvals, and integrations with enterprise applications, APIs, data sources, and cloud platforms.
• Agentic AI Strategy and Workflow Automation Leadership: Lead the identification, prioritization, and automation of high-impact enterprise workflows using Agentic AI, ensuring solutions reduce manual effort, improve cycle time, and align with business and technology objectives.
• Hybrid Engineering and Modernization: Maintain strong technical ownership across cloud-native application development and AI automation, including .NET/Java services, Python-based AI tooling, legacy modernization patterns, and scalable deployment practices.
• Knowledge Automation and RAG Enablement: Build and govern Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines that index technical documentation, legacy specifications, code repositories, and process knowledge to improve agent accuracy, explainability, and reusability.
• LLM Integration, Governance, and Risk Management: Evaluate, integrate, and optimize LLMs and model platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, LLaMA, and AWS Bedrock while establishing guardrails for security, privacy, responsible AI, reliability, and operational compliance.
• Enterprise Systems Domain Leadership: Provide effective leadership, motivation, and mentoring
  across the Enterprise Systems domains, including Workday, ServiceNow, Finance Applications, and Corporate Software, while building domain capability, delivery ownership, and operational accountability.

This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s in Engineering in Computers or any other stream of IT
• 15+ years in Programming: Dual proficiency in Agentic AI development, Python (for AI) and .NET/Java (for application development).
• 8+ years of experience working as a manager or technical lead
• 2+ years in Agentic-AI Frameworks: Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph and LangSmith for building multi-step reasoning workflows.
• 3+ years in Robotic Process Automation RPA development and maintenance
• Agentic-AI Frameworks: Hands-on experience with LangChain and LangGraph for building multi-step reasoning workflows.
• Vector Tech: Experience with semantic search and Vector Databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Chroma, etc.).
• Cloud Architecture: Familiarity with the AWS Ecosystem (ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB etc).
• System Design: Proven ability to build tool-calling agents that interact with APIs and databases.
• Hands experience with Enterprise software management i.e. Workday, ServiceNow, Corporate systems, SaaS model and process automation
• Experience in end-to-end bot development, testing, deployment, maintenance and production support using enterprise RPA platforms..

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Master’s in engineering in any stream of IT
• Experience with LLMOps and AI governance frameworks.
• Background in Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Transformation Mindset: Ability to see AI as a tool for accelerating complex enterprise migrations.
• Scalable Thinking: Designing AI solutions that work at the scale of a global airline.
• Collaborative Execution: Bridging the gap between legacy system experts and modern cloud engineers to ensure seamless implementation.
• Collaborative Execution: Bridging the gap between legacy system experts and modern cloud engineers to ensure seamless implementation